WILL TEACHERS BE REPLACED BY COMPUTERS IN THE FUTURE?

未来老师会被计算机所取代吗？

In education, the computer is playing an increasingly important role, so some people assume that teachers will be replaced by computers one day. However, I believe that computers will never be able to replace teachers.

在教育中，计算机起着越来越重要的作用，所以有些人认为总有一天教师将被电脑取代。然而，我认为计算机永远不能取代教师。

Firstly, the computer can never fulfill teacher’s role in nourishing the human mind and spirit. Education is more a process of instruction students emotionally and psychologically than passing on knowledge mechanically. It is widely acknowledged that successful education is always based on a large amount of investment of love and concern. Students need teachers' love while in difficulty, for teachers' encouragement can help them gain confidence. No wonder the famous blind educator and writer Helen Keller once said, 'My teacher's love illuminates my dark life and enables me to find my direction.' But how could students get all of these from an inanimate死气沉沉的, 没生命的 machine even if all the information of the world could be stored in it?

首先，在滋养人的心灵和精神方面，计算机不能满足教师的角色。教育不仅仅是机械的传授知识更是一个指导学生情绪和心理的过程。人们普遍认为成功的教育都是基于大量爱与关怀的投入。在面对困难的时候学生需要教师的爱，因为教师的鼓励能帮助他们获得信心。难怪著名盲人教育家和作家海伦凯勒曾说，“我老师的爱照亮了我黑暗的生活，使我找到我的方向。”但学生怎么可能从一个没生命的机器中获得（爱与关怀），即使它可以存储世界上所有的信息？

Another demanding task computers cannot perform is that they cannot teach students according to their individual gifts. A competent有能力的, 胜任的 teacher is always good at finding out students' shining points. For example, when Gauss高斯 was a child, his teacher realized he had a special talent in mathematics and helped him exploit his potential and thus set him to the way of tremendous success in mathematics. This work, of course, is beyond any computer's ability. Besides, teachers can adjust their teaching to different students of different characteristics. Students' characteristics are so diversified 形形色色的 that computers can hardly be programmed to meet this requirement.

另一项计算机不能完成的艰巨任务是它们不能根据学生的个人资质来教学生。一个称职的老师总能发现学生的闪光点。例如，当高斯还是个孩子的时候，他的老师发现他在数学上有特殊才能，并帮助他开发他的潜力，从而使他在数学上取得了巨大的成功。当然这项工作是超越任何计算机能力的。此外，教师可以根据不同学生的特点来调整自己的教学方式。学生的特点是如此多元化的以至于计算机难以用编程来满足这一要求。

In conclusion, no matter how advanced computers will be in future, education still has to be fulfilled by teachers. The teacher is able to be fully aware of students' needs and offer them what they really want accordingly while the computer is merely a tool manipulated(熟练地)操作 by human beings to assist the fulfillment of such tasks.

总之，在未来无论电脑有多么的先进，教育还得依靠于教师。教师能充分了解学生的需要并为他们提供他们真正需要的，然而，相应的电脑只是一个被人类熟练操作来协助完成这些任务的工具。